World Heritage in Italy

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  • ●● Cultural
  • ●● Natural
  • ●● Mixed
  • ●● Tentative

World Heritage Sites

SiteInscribedTypeReviewsVisitorsRating
Agrigento 1997 Cultural 8 342 3.89
Aquileia 1998 Cultural 8 230 3.29
Arab-Norman Palermo 2015 Cultural 8 339 3.89
Assisi 2000 Cultural 8 419 3.92
Botanical Garden, Padua 1997 Cultural 9 349 2.76
Castel del Monte 1996 Cultural 6 237 3.27
Cilento and Vallo di Diano 1998 Cultural 5 204 3.53
Costiera Amalfitana 1997 Cultural 7 452 4
Crespi d'Adda 1995 Cultural 7 203 2.44
Dolomites 2009 Natural 7 434 4.23
Etruscan Necropolises 2004 Cultural 9 246 3.61
Evaporitic Karst and Caves 2023 Natural 5 53 2.12
Ferrara 1995 Cultural 10 338 3.32
Florence 1982 Cultural 15 1143 4.57
Genoa 2006 Cultural 7 431 3
Great Spa Towns of Europe 2021 Cultural 14 567 3.32
Isole Eolie 2000 Natural 7 178 3.85
Ivrea 2018 Cultural 6 124 2.08
Longobards in Italy 2011 Cultural 14 295 2.94
Mantua and Sabbioneta 2008 Cultural 7 278 3.33
Matera 1993 Cultural 7 317 4
Medici Villas and Gardens 2013 Cultural 7 361 3.15
Modena 1997 Cultural 11 345 3.06
Monte San Giorgio 2003 Natural 5 198 2.3
Mount Etna 2013 Natural 11 416 3.65
Naples 1995 Cultural 8 773 3.52
Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 2021 Cultural 12 300 4
Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 1987 Cultural 14 902 3.86
Pienza 1996 Cultural 8 268 3.12
Pompei 1997 Cultural 8 807 4.47
Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 1997 Cultural 11 500 4.01
Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 2011 Cultural 15 342 2.06
Primeval Beech Forests 2007 Natural 36 447 2.72
Ravenna 1996 Cultural 8 427 4.22
Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 1997 Cultural 11 266 3.08
Rhaetian Railway 2008 Cultural 7 249 3.29
Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 1979 Cultural 7 141 3.22
Rome 1980 Cultural 13 1345 4.67
Royal Palace at Caserta 1997 Cultural 4 269 3.31
Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 2003 Cultural 10 250 3.05
San Gimignano 1990 Cultural 10 538 3.77
Santa Maria delle Grazie 1980 Cultural 10 431 3.41
Siena 1995 Cultural 9 681 4.13
Su Nuraxi di Barumini 1997 Cultural 6 134 3.41
Syracuse 2005 Cultural 8 373 3.67
The Porticoes of Bologna 2021 Cultural 6 360 3.03
The Prosecco Hills 2019 Cultural 4 128 2.21
The trulli of Alberobello 1996 Cultural 7 326 3.49
Urbino 1998 Cultural 8 258 3.39
Val d'Orcia 2004 Cultural 10 278 3.29
Val di Noto 2002 Cultural 10 288 3.48
Venetian Works of Defence 2017 Cultural 9 568 3.02
Venice and its Lagoon 1987 Cultural 18 1148 4.61
Verona 2000 Cultural 12 674 3.65
Via Appia 2024 Cultural 4 144 3.37
Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 1994 Cultural 11 354 3.38
Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 1999 Cultural 8 360 3.5
Villa d'Este 2001 Cultural 9 355 3.39
Villa Romana del Casale 1997 Cultural 12 225 3.93
Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 2014 Cultural 6 204 2.88

Tentative List

SiteAddedScheduledTypeReviewsVisitorsRating
Archipelago of la Maddalena and Islands of Bocche di Bonifacio 2006 Natural 4 33 75%
Art and Architecture in the Prehistory of Sardinia. The domus de janas. 2021 2025 Cultural 4 22 100%
Bradyseism in the Flegrea Area 2006 Natural 1 32 43%
Cascata delle Marmore and Valnerina: Monastic sites and ancient hydrogeological reclamation works 2006 Cultural 1 27 60%
Cattolica Monastery in Stilo and Basilian-Byzantine complexes 2006 Cultural 1 21 50%
Citadel of Alessandria 2006 Cultural 3 31 17%
Eocene Marine Biodiversity of the Alpone Valley 2021 Natural 1 3 100%
European Paper Mills (from the era of hand-made paper) (Italy) 2024 2027 Cultural 0 3 0%
Evidence of Italo-Greek Culture between the Early and Late Middle Ages 2023 Cultural 0 5 67%
Hanbury botanical gardens 2006 Cultural 1 20 43%
Historical theatres of the Marche Region 2021 2026 Cultural 1 23 33%
Island of Asinara 2006 Natural 1 5 100%
Karstic caves in prehistoric Apulia 2006 Cultural 1 13 75%
Lake Maggiore and Lake D'Orta lakelands 2006 Cultural 2 105 71%
Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Italy) 2017 Natural 0 65 50%
Massif du Mont-Blanc 2008 Natural 0 90 82%
Mothia and Lilibeo Island: The Phoenician-Punic Civilization in Italy 2006 Cultural 2 22 88%
Nuragic monuments of Sardinia (EXT) 2021 Cultural 2 35 100%
Orvieto 2006 Cultural 3 88 77%
Pelagos: The Cetacean Sanctuary 2006 Natural 0 7 50%
Salento and the Barocco Leccese 2006 Cultural 4 63 92%
Sulcis Iglesiente 2006 Natural 1 15 29%
The Aniene valley and Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli 2006 Cultural 2 50 53%
The Cultural Landscape of Civita di Bagnoregio 2017 Cultural 6 43 84%
The cultural landscape of the Benedictine settlements in medieval Italy 2016 2027 Cultural 1 46 89%
The Marble Basin of Carrara 2006 Mixed 2 54 80%
The Murge of Altamura 2006 Mixed 2 31 55%
The system of the Ville-fattoria in Chianti Classico 2023 2028 Cultural 0 18 50%
The Transhumance: The Royal Shepherd's Track 2006 Mixed 1 19 17%
Via Francigena in Italy 2019 2027 Cultural 3 70 37%
Villas of the Papal Nobility 2006 Cultural 2 43 79%
Volterra: Historical City and Cultural Landscape 2006 Cultural 2 74 85%

Former Tentative Sites

SiteAddedRemovedReviews
Alba Fucens 1982 1982 0
Alghero 1996 2005 0
Alps, a) Western Alps, b) Dolomites, c) Eastern Alps 2005 2006 0
Arch of Benevento 1984 1984 0
Archaeological area of Segesta 1984 1996 0
Archeological Park of Selinunte 1987 1987 0
Arcipelago Ponziano 2002 2005 0
Ascoli Piceno 1982 1982 0
Baia di Napoli con Capri, Ischia e Procida 1996 2005 0
Baptistery of Albenga 1984 1996 0
Baptistery of Cremona 1984 1996 0
Baptistery of Novara 1984 1996 0
Brera, Milan 1982 1982 0
Byzantine architecture of Torcello 1984 1990 0
Casamari Abbey 1984 1996 0
Castles of the Trentino 1984 1996 0
Cattedrale di Cefalu' e abitato storico 1998 2005 0
Centro storico di Cividale a tempietto longobardo 1995 2011 0
Complessi di culto romanici dell'Abruzzo 2002 2005 0
Costiere del Lago di Garda 1998 2003 0
Duomo di Milano 1996 2005 2
Faenza cathedral 1984 1984 0
Fascia costiera da Castellammare del Golfo a Trapani, con Erice, Mozia e la Isole Egadi 2002 2005 0
Fort de Bard 1982 1982 0
Fortezze dei Montefeltro 1996 2005 0
Fossanova abbey 1984 1996 0
Fossil Forest of Dunarobba 1997 1997 0
Galluzzo Monastery Florence 1984 1996 0
Gennargentu NP 1982 1982 0
Giotto e il Beato Angelico - Assisi e Cortona 1984 1997 0
Grotte di Castellana 1982 1982 0
Historic Centre of Lucca 2006 2021 1
Historic Centre of Parma 2006 2021 3
Historic centre of Pavia and Chartreuse 2006 2021 4
Il Castrum di Aosta 1984 1996 0
Itria valley 1982 1982 0
Locri 1982 1982 0
Massafra 1982 1982 0
Metaponte 1982 1982 0
Milan - Ospedale Maggiore (del Filarete) 1984 1996 0
Montecristo Island and its marine environment 1982 1982 0
Montepulciano, San Biagio 1984 1984 0
National Park of Abruzzo 2000 2000 0
Oasi di Ninfa 1996 2005 0
Ostia Antica, Porto di Roma + Isola Sacra 1987 1987 0
Otranto 1984 1985 0
Palermo, botanical garden and Monreale 1996 1996 0
Papal Residence of Anagni 1984 1996 0
Parco e Ville dei Castelli Romani (Colli Albani) 1996 2005 0
Parco Nazionale Del Gran Paradiso 1999 1999 0
Parco nazionale della Calabria 2011 2012 0
Parco Nazionale della Sila - Sila, gran bosco d'Italia 2012 2021 1
Parco Nazionale della Stelvio 1984 1996 0
Piazza maggiore, Todi 1982 1982 0
Piero della Francesca - Siena, Firenze, Borgo San Sepolcro 1984 1996 0
Pisticci 1982 1982 0
Pomponesco 1984 1996 0
Ponds in the Bay of Oristano and the Sinis Peninsula island of Mal di Ventre 2006 2021 1
Ponds of Cagliari 1982 1982 0
Port of Pyrgi 1984 1996 0
Promontorio del Gargano con Monte S.Angelo, Isole Tremiti e Foresta Umbra 2002 2005 0
Promontorio di Portofino con i centri storici di Camogli, S.Fruttuoso fino alla baia di Paraggi 1984 1999 0
Railway station Santa Maria Novella, Florence 1982 1982 0
Revere and Bozzolo 1984 1996 0
Riserva Bosco Fontana 1984 1996 0
Romanesque Cathedrals in Puglia 2006 2021 3
San Pellegrino Terme 1984 1999 0
Sanctuary of Fortuna, Palestrina 1984 1996 0
Santa Maria delle Carceri, Prato 1984 1984 0
Santuario rupestre di Olevano sul Tusciano 1996 2011 0
Santuario Sannitico di Pietrabbondante 1997 2003 0
Spoleto and Tempietto sul Clitunno 1995 2011 0
Taormina and Isola Bella 2006 2021 4
Tempio Malatestiano 1996 2005 0
Terracina 1984 1984 0
The city of Bergamo 2006 2021 3
The Lower Palaeolithic Palaeosurfaces at Isernia-La Pineta and Notarchirico 2006 2021 0
Thermal architecture of Arco 1984 1984 0
Thermal Architecture of Merano 1984 1996 0
Trani Cathedral 1984 1996 0
Tropea 1984 1996 0
Turin historic centre 1982 1982 0
Uccellina NP 1982 1982 0
Veio 1984 1996 0
Ville Vesuviane 1984 1996 1
Wine Grape landscapes: Langhe, Roero, Monferrato and Valtellina 2006 2012 0
Zone Carsiche: risorgenza del Timavo e Grotta Gigante 1996 2005 0

Country info

Official Name
Italy
Region
Europe and North America
WHC location
WHC member

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The following 16 Community Members have visited all WHS in this country:

Argo . Atila Ege . Clyde . Dimitar Krastev . Els Slots . Jakob Frenzel . Jonas Kremer . Maciej Gil . Martina Rúčková . Nan . Philipp Peterer . Roger Ourset . Tarquinio_Superbo . Tsunami . Yevhen Ivanovych . Zoë Sheng .